Thread: Let me pick your brains

When I make a diet for others they get the results I promise them, and then some...and they'd better since they are my clients and if they don't...I don't get paid. Pretty simple terms, get what I promise you or you don't pay me...

When I make a diet for myself, it's usually pretty effective when I stick to it.

Usually I base diet plans on lean body mass. Which for now, for lean bulking, I'm using 15 calories/lb. I based this on my body weight though, not my lean body mass this time around to see what would happen.

I'm not going to get into a discussion about macros, etc... for my carbs although very high for me, are pretty low for most of you guys...and ack...eek... I drink whole milk.

Anyway, 15 calories/lb and I'm up 10lbs, still look pretty good for a man my age, actually damn good for a man my age since I still catch the eye of women half my age in spite of my Klingon hair line. I'm not big or extremely muscular, just pretty fit and catching the eye of younger women is really moot since there is only one who I need to look good for... It's an ego boost but that's about it. I'm faithful like an old dog. Other than the ego boost, the only benefit is picking up a female client here and there that ends up training under Mrs.V. most of the time. And yeah, her physique brings in the clients too...so if a guy comes to train with us because of how she looks, I'm certainly not offended...and that goes both ways.

Now for my question. Fat gains are a little bit higher than I'd wanted at the moment. I'm up to 16% BF by impedance 12-14 by the tape measure...at least 15 by the mirror so I'm going with 16 or more to be realistic. of course a little more body fat makes the muscles less cut and so less visible, making me visually appear a little smaller.

So considering my approach is fitness oriented, I train using a starr based, but my own 5x5 regimen but done crossfit style, i do serious cardio 2x a week and walk every day.

What would you guys do? Stick with 15 cals/lb of BW or cut it back to 15/lb of LBM?

Either cut back on your cals, or burn more. It's really that simple, as I'm sure you know.

For me I found as I get older, I have to eat far less carbs than I used to when I was in my twenties.